Pulling the Moon
I’ve never made love to a man.
I’ve never made love to a man but I imagine.
I imagine pulling the moon.
I imagine pulling the moon out of his brow.
Pulling the moon out of his brow and eating it again.
Eating and pulling his hair in silence.
A kind of silence when the moon goes out.
When the moon goes back and forth between us.
A kind of silence lit for only a moment.
Seeing for a moment through the eyes of the horse.
Through the eyes of the dead horse
that burns slower than my hair.
My hair that burns the moon off.
My hair with a hand inside it.
Originally published in Cenzontle (BOA Editions, 2018). Copyright © 2018 by Marcelo Hernandez Castillo. Used with the permission of the poet.